THE EMBALMER
A tricky film, this: a cunning and perverse thriller that takes the guise of, and works best as, a dark character study
Shelley Duvall: 1949-2024
Shelley Duvall: Hollywood’s prototypical Quirky Actress.
GIRLS ON THE ROAD
A 1972 no-budgeter that is, first and foremost, very much of its time
Robert Towne: 1934-2024
Another important showbiz death? I’m afraid so…
THE BEEKEEPER
A Jason Statham movie with most everything that portends, meaning THE BEEKEEPER (2024) won’t ever be mistaken for CITIZEN KANE
A CHINESE GHOST STORY (1987)
An enormously iconic Hong Kong fantasy, although I’ve never been all that impressed by it.
THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD
A film that in most particulars would appear to qualify for Profoundly Weird status, but which in the filmography of its director, Canada’s Guy Maddin, doesn’t seem too strange at all
BUFFET FROID
A very bizarre 1979 comedy by France’s Bertrand Blier that functions as a film noir parody, a cautionary essay on contemporary dehumanization and an unfiltered blast of surreal invention
FAUST (1994)
Jan Svankmajor does FAUST. Need I say more?
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
The “Most Amazing, Incredible, Remarkable True Story Ever Told”?